Replacing and Refilling Printer Ink Cartridges

Typing and printing are two activities people always do in daily life. This is undeniable. As you can see people are getting busy everyday. Children go to school. They come home to work on homework. The teachers ask the homework should be typed well. Or, they are busy making papers. This is happened to college students trying to catch up the deadline of the assignments. And, the businessman cannot leave a day without printing a piece of paper. People need more papers and something to represent their pens, ink.

Refill Printer Ink Cartridges

Now houses are equipped with printer, as it can ease people to print anything just by stepping toward their work station. But have you ever been in a condition when you were in a rush but your printer was running out of ink? Don’t panic. Here, I’m going to share the information about how to replace the printer ink cartridges. Well, it may cost money as we have to change the whole cartridges by buying the new ones. That is true. There is another alternative way though, that is refilling it by yourself.

Replacing Printer Ink Cartridges

This is more practical. We just need to buy new cartridges and replace the old ones with the new ones. Here are the steps:

1. Printer must be on. Press the power button to turn it on.

2. Open the printer cover. Before that, lower the output tray first.

3. Press the ink button. As the effect of this action, the print head will move automatically to the cartridges position. NOTES:

•Do not press the ink button more than three seconds, or the printer will start to clean the print head.
•Do not use fingers to move the print head to the cartridges position as it can damage the printer.

4. Open up the cartridges cover and pinch the side of the cartridges that you want to replace to help you lifting it out. NOTES:

•Always be careful when removing the cartridges. If your skin has direct contact with the ink, rinse it thoroughly with water and soap. If the ink comes to your eyes, flush them with water. If irritation occurred, contact the doctor immediately.

5. Release the new ink cartridges from the protective bag then place them in cartridges holder vertically. NOTES:

•Before opening the package, shake the ink cartridges four or five times for best result.
•To prevent leakage, do not shake the ink cartridges after releasing from protective bag and do not remove the labels too.
•Protect the ink from dust and dirt once it’s removed from the ink cartridges.
•Store the ink cartridges with the label position displayed on the top. Otherwise, it can spill and be contaminated.
•Install the new ink cartridges promptly once the old ones are removed. Otherwise, the print head will dry and the printer will be unable to print properly.

6. After you finish replacing, close the cartridges and printer cover.

7. Press the ink button again to activate the print head. It will take one minute for the ink charging process. After it’s complete, printer head will be return to home position.

When you decide to buy the new cartridges, make sure you buy the genuine ones. Other low quality products can damage your printer and usually do not have any warranties. The cost for the new cartridges is about 10 to 15 US$ depends on the brand of the printer itself.

Refilling Printer Ink Cartridges

If you want to retrench the cost, you can do another way. You don’t need to replace the whole cartridges with the new ones, but you can just refilling them. You can choose either you want to refill them at store or you want to do it by yourself. The cheapest alternative way is refilling them yourself, of course.

•The steps:
1. Use the hand gloves as refilling will be messy.
2. Remove the cartridges from printer.
3. Find the black spot on the top cover of the cartridge. The black spot is covered by the sticker. Peel of the sticker to find a hole, or you can just pierce the sticker with the syringe needle to locate the hole.
4. Prepare you syringe and suck the ink from the ink bottle into the syringe. Do it slowly.
5. Inject the ink through the hole using the syringe.
6. Cover the hole with scotch tape.
7. Print colorful picture immediately to let the ink flow.

NOTES:

•Make sure no air bubbles when you do injecting. Air bubbles can block the ink cartridge and cause the ink comes out from it. You can draw the air by sucking it using the syringe before you do injecting.
•Prepare tissue or other waste clothes as the ink may overflow and cause a mess.
•Refill the ink not in maximum capacity to prevent leakage. For example if your cartridge capacity is 19 ml, refill the ink until it reaches 13 ml only.
•Don’t use the same syringe to inject the four different color of ink (black, yellow, cyan, magenta).

Refilling ink printer with yourself is indeed more economical, yet maybe it will be messy. If you decide to do it by yourself at home, make sure to clear the area since the ink can spread on all over your table. The cost of printer ink is usually half of the ink cartridges price. see more about wireless compact printer scanner.

Problems in Refilling Printer Ink

Even refilling printer ink cannot run successfully. Problems may occur after refilling process or when the process is running. Some problems that might be happened:

1. The ink cartridge is contaminated by different color
The solution for it is clear the cartridge using the water. You can also use a hairdryer to dry it. If you do this every time before refilling, you will get better quality in printing.

2. Loading error always occurred when refilled ink is replaced
The solution is clean the space between cartridge and inside the printer using cotton swab and alcohol. Leave the alcohol dry before installing the cartridge.

Inkjet Cartridge Printer Refilling Ink Bottle Online

Don’t be careless when selecting a replacement ink cartridge as it may result in damage to the printer, always careful to buy cartridges that are compatible with your printer. Below we show the type of printer that is most widely used in the United States.